i officially uninstalled pokerstars today after this hand..

after a horror week of -10 buyins, i have uninstalled pokerstars from my computer. some of it has come from a cumulative effect of playing slightly scared due to having shitty luck, but mostly from losing with KK or AA heads up when someone flops 2pair, getting outdrawn like a c#$% and just generally not having the poker gods on my side . i might finish my uni exams and take a roadtrip to the snow for a while and enjoy the great outdoors.. this is my final hand for 3 weeks.. i knew he didn't have shit and through my tilt coloured glasses i knew the correct move was to call but alas.. rivered again..

PokerStars Game #1897787347: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2005/06/14 -
12:50:57 (ET)
Table 'Despina' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: fkn2pt ($1.19 in chips)
Seat 3: Kenseno ($7.09 in chips)
Seat 4: mbabbitt56 ($2.17 in chips)
Seat 6: Oiche_mhaith ($1.94 in chips)
fkn2pt: posts small blind $0.01
Kenseno: posts big blind $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fkn2pt [Jh 8s]
mbabbitt56: folds
Oiche_mhaith: calls $0.02
acheat joins the table at seat #5
fkn2pt: raises $0.04 to $0.06
Kenseno: folds
Oiche_mhaith: calls $0.04
*** FLOP *** [7d 5s 3c]
fkn2pt: bets $0.20
Oiche_mhaith: calls $0.20
*** TURN *** [7d 5s 3c] [Jd]
fkn2pt: bets $0.20
Oiche_mhaith: raises $1.36 to $1.56
fkn2pt: calls $0.73 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [7d 5s 3c Jd] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fkn2pt: shows [Jh 8s] (a pair of Jacks)
Oiche_mhaith: shows [Ad 7c] (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
Oiche_mhaith collected $2.30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $2.40 | Rake $0.10
Board [7d 5s 3c Jd As]
Seat 1: fkn2pt (small blind) showed [Jh 8s] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 3: Kenseno (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: mbabbitt56 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Oiche_mhaith (button) showed [Ad 7c] and won ($2.30) with two pair, Aces
and Sevens

If you have to delete a site and never play there again because of getting a bit of a bad beat with your marginal hand then i don't know what to say other than suck it up princess.

But hopefully you'll come back from your roadtrip w/ a better state of mind and be able to get back to the tables.

nah not never playing there again.. just taking a break thats all.. its been a pretty shit couple of days poker wise though. need to get my poker brain functioning properly

Do one of two things:

1) fold pre-flop
2) thank god that you play with people bad enough to make that play on the turn

At micro-limits there will be more bad beats but your winrate is higher (much higher) because of it - stop complaining.

mj

well one part of my game i really need to work on is keeping my head and playing proper poker after i take some bad beats.. which is why i'm taking some time out. when i'm on my game my reads are mostly dead on (and in this case they were), but i just got sucked out.

anyone here have trouble keeping their head after bad beats? i play badly when i'm playing scared.. there are a couple of times that i should have moved all-in to bluff someone off a hand and didn't do it becuse of fear. also when i'm playing badly i play waaay to consistently, and i don't mix up my play enough.. but when i'm playing well i'll be completely randomising things and terrorising the table..

ugh..

If you check down a couple topics in this forum I had basically the same thing happen.

I got really upset becaue the person made a call they shouldn't have made but sucked out on the river, but after posting on here, I decided it was partly my fault.

My J7 two pair lost to a straight on the river. I should have folded pre-flop with that, and you probably should of had with yours too.

Even if you hit something on the board, there is a reason why hands like these aren't good to play. They are prone to get sucked out on.

I wouldnt even call that a bad beat, you were beat almost all the way, a bad beat is when i had 99 and the flop came 962, turn was a K, we both got all of our money in and the river was a 6, he showed 66. That was a pretty bad day.

STBY.

drama queen! you unistalled the program because you lost $1.15?!?! if you lose your head after getting a 'bad beat' for this kind of money, you are playing the wrong game.

why don't you just play with play money? this is just a waste of time. i hear there is a good poker video game coming out soon.....maybe that is more up your alley.

wow 1$ loss .. this belongs in the bad beat section.

hey hey hey.... keep it friendly, don't berate him because of the stakes he plays... it was a beat for his whole stack.

keep the browbeating to the fact that he's telling a bad beat story and those only perpetuate the failings of a poor player.

I reiterate what dwarfy said, STBY.

- sed

sorry. having a bad day. i just had hemorrhoid surgery and the nurse hasn't changed my colostomy bag.

you know how it is.

can't wait to get back to the home......the nurses are prettier!